Posted on 05/10/2023 5:54:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Transgender-identifying sprinter Halba Diouf, a biological male who claims to be a woman, fumed over World Athletics’ decision to ban biological males from competing against women in the Summer 2024 Paris Olympics.
The French native began transgender procedures in 2021 and planned on competing in the women’s 200-meter race but is now barred from the competition.
“I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold,” Diouf claimed in an interview. “The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish, and we are being refused that, we are being hounded … I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions.”
The World Athletics Council announced back in March that it would no longer allow transgender athletes to compete against women in female World Rankings competitions.
The move, which went into effect at the start of April, banned “male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty.”
“Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. “We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years. As more evidence becomes available, we will review our position, but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.”
The organization said that it consulted with Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes’ Commission, and the IOC when making its decision and that there was “little support within the sport for the option that was first presented to stakeholders, which required transgender athletes to maintain their testosterone levels below 2.5nmol/L for 24 months to be eligible to compete internationally in the female category.”
World Athletics is the international governing body for sprints, middle/long, hurdles, road running, jumps, throws, combined events, race walks, relays, cross country, mountain running, ultra running, and trail running.
“There are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in athletics and consequently no athletics-specific evidence of the impact these athletes would have on the fairness of female competition in athletics,” the organization said at the time. “In these circumstances, the Council decided to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion.”
Don't care...period.
This is a navel-gazing pity party.
I doubt he is gazing at navels........................😜
I wuz being polite... 😅
”I feel marginalized”
…and?
F’s given=~0.00.
👌..........................
You should be marginalized.
Funny how the “rights” only go one way.
What about the actual women who are marginalized...?
He looks like one of the villains in a “Die Hard” movie. Marginalized is exactly what the ladies feel when they have to follow you passing gas all the way around the track.
those men who decided to be women are the ones who want to marginalize women in sports
What can’t these freakazoids just get together and compete amongst themselves? Nobody would complain...........................
Well....you should be since you are a DUDE competing in a woman’s track event!
Just wait until they sue in court demanding to compete........................
He’s part of the Klu Klux Trans
Excellent!..........................
fake females should not be allowed to compete against genuine females just because of their “feelings”, appeals to group identity, group privilege, or social pressure
You mean like a drag race ? but with people instead of cool cars?
Because there less chance to be number one and there’s less attention.
The freaks irritate the s*** out of me— nearly as much as the ones that support and allow this farce to continue.
Grrrr
They should make them run with their pants off.
I suppose that text that is placed in the margin also feels marginalized.
People, unlike text, have free will. If you want, you can step into the limelight and complain of all the attention you receive. Step into the shadows and complain of being ignored. Hide in the dark and complain that no one sees you. Place yourself in the margin and complain of being marginalized.
My surmise is that this person chose “to be a woman” so as to win competitive events. That’s not fair to women.
If he had other reasons for “becoming a woman,” he should just get on with this life without complaining.
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